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Biography

Born on January 29 (February 11), 1905 in Kazan, Russian Empire (now the Republic of Tatarstan).
Honored Artist of the RSFSR (11.08.1980).
She graduated from the Moscow School of Theatre and Choreography at the Bolshoi Theatre, class of A.A. Gorsky (1921).
In 1921-1922 she was a ballet soloist at the S.M. Zimina Opera.
In 1922-1924 she was a ballet soloist at the Experimental Theatre.
She graduated from the Moscow State Theatre School at the Bolshoi Theatre (1922), and in 1927 from the acting department of the State College of Cinematography.
In 1942-1943 she was an actress at the Griboyedov Russian Drama Theatre in Tbilisi. Then – at the Moscow Theatre-Studio of Film Actors.
She began acting in silent films in 1923 (Aelita, The Girl with Cigarettes from Mosselprom and others) while still a student.
She was the wife of actor Andrei Fait, and then the daughter-in-law of party activist Lev Kamenev. After her husband (Kamenev's son) was repressed, she married Georgian film director Nikolai Sanov (Sanishvili), and they had a daughter, Karina Sanova (Shmarinova), who also became an actress and starred in the film "Princess Mary" as the princess. /> In 1971 she published her memoirs, Mosaic of the Past.
She died on March 5, 1996 in Moscow.

 

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commentaries

- Reines du silence: les plus célèbres actrices russes du cinéma muet Ioulia CHAMPOROVA, 2017, RUSSIA BEYOND

 

 

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